And, as is becoming clear, the war against baby girls is not confined to China.
The first of the post-war baby boomers turned 55 in the past few years.
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Even with the demographic bulge caused by the post-war baby boom, America can afford its senior citizens, the people too old to work.
Already, as the post-war baby-boomers reach their 50s, Japan's lifetime-employers are carrying the cost of paying their senior workers over the odds in return for all the wages they forwent two or three decades ago.
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At the same time post-war baby boomers are on the eve of retirement: the number of people aged 65 or over is expected to rise by 40m.
The only comparable event is the post-World War II Baby Boom in the US. This is an opportunity, and can be a huge challenge, because all those people will want to be well-fed, educated and productively employed.
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 to a Syrian immigrant father at the height of the post-War Baby Boom.
The post-war "baby-boom" generation is now reaching reproductive age.
Boom time: A sharp increase in births after World War II created the baby boomer generation, born into an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity.
With 2007 as the largest birth year in U.S. history, even larger than the years of the post-World-War-II baby boom.
She was born in Afghanistan and her parents, when she is a baby, need to leave because of the war.
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But -- but before that, there was us -- the baby boomers, the children of the World War II generation.
Elizabeth A. Davis is passionately, winningly earnest as Grusha, a servant who plucks a baby of noble birth from the chaos of war, then goes before a tribunal in the hope of keeping the child as her own.
The baby boomers, that vast cohort of post World War II babies, have now started to retire.
For all its high-tech local networks, the firm faces a fierce battle against the entrenched Baby Bells, which are preparing for a price war.
Think about all those horrors that emerged in the late 60s and early 70s -- "The Exorcist, " "Don't Look Now, " "Rosemary's Baby" -- just as the Vietnam War was raging.
Baby boomers started working around 1963, dating to the time the first post-war babies would have turned 18.
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